Wagon-seat.



N. BBATTY.

WAGON SEAT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14 1908.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

NELLIE BEA'ITY, OF MADISON, INDIANA.

WAGON-SEAT.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed. September 14, 1908. Serial No. 453,036.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NnL rE BEATTY, a'citizen, of the United States, residing at Madison, in the county of Jefferson and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Wagon-Seat, of which the following is a specification. i

This invention has relation to combined wagon seats and feed boxes and it consistsof the novel construction and arrangements of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a combined feed box and seat for a wagon which, when not needed or utilized as a seat, may be quickly and conveniently transformed into a feed-box for the draft animals.

A further object of the invention is to construct a device of the character indicated, which will be sim 1e, durable, and economic, and which may h e adapted to any form of wagon. 7

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device shown applied as a seal. Fig. 2 is a lon gitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device transformed into a trough. 1

The combined feed-box and wagon seat includes the body 1, which is made up of the bottom board 2, the fixed end boards 3,'and the fixed back board 4. The board 5 is hingedly attached to theforwardedge of the bottom board 2, and the end boards 3 are provided with the hooks 6, or other securing devices, which are adapted to engage eyes 7 or their equivalent mounted upon the hinged board 5, and which are adapted to hold the said hinged board in an upright position with relation to the bottomboard 2 when the device is used as a trough. The cleats 8 are mounted upon the outer side of the end vboards 3. The standards 9 are hingedly attached to the under side of the bottom board 2, and are provided with the hinged props 10, which are adapted to engage the cleats 8 when the device is used as a trough. The cross-pieces 11 are secured to; the under side of the bottom board 2' in the vicinity of the ends thereof, and the elliptic springs 12 are attached to the said cross pieces 11. The blocks 13 are secured to the lower sides of the elliptic springs 11 and are provided with the cleats'l i, which are adapted to receive the side boards of a wagon body when the device is in position upon the same and is used as a seat.

When the device is used as a wagon seat the standards 9 are swung against the under side of the bottom board 2 of the body 1, and are secured by means of the button 15, which is mounted upon the under side of the said board 2. The props 10 are folded against the said standards 9, and the cleats 14 upon the blocks 13 are engaged with the side boards of thewagon body.

When the device is used as a feed-box the standards 9 are swung down, and the props 10 are engaged at their up er'end portions with the cleats 8, and the side board 5 of the body 1 is swung up and secured by the hooks and eyes 6 and 7. When the parts are thus arranged it is obvious that the device may be.

placed upon the ground and may bev readily used as a box for feeding the draft animals of the team. 1 Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure, by Letters Patent, is

A combined feed-box and wagon-seat comprising a body having a hinged side, crosspieces attached to the under side of the bottom of the body, elliptic springs attached to said cross-pieces, blocks attached to said ellip tic springs, cleats mounted upon the said blocks, standards hingedly attached to the under side of the bottom of the body between the elliptic s rings, propslpivotally attached to said stan ards, and cleats mounted upon the outer sides of the ends of the body and adapted to be engaged by the said props. (ea In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

NELLIE BEATTY. Witnessesz' MEL. 0. LrrsoN, JAooB L. CLEVER. 

